Word: voided
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...advocates of economic progress and, as Robinson puts it, "the concept allows them to play with the big boys and have an impact on huge development projects." If sustainable development proves illusory, environmentalists will be left with a huge problem: there is no big idea ready to fill the void. With human numbers expected to double in the next 60 years, policymakers must now find some new trail map that will enable humanity to walk the ledge between rising material expectations and the wholesale collapse of the biosphere...
Fortunately, the Harvard administration can prevent this crisis. The establishment of a full-time advisory position for student technical theatre would fill the void created next year by the loss of the tremendously dedicated and perambulatory Symonds. Such an advisor would be responsible for advising, overseeing and assisting in the technical aspects of Agassiz productions, house shows, CityStep and other non-Loeb events. Without such an advisor, student theater and students' lives will be at risk. The Harvard administration has a responsibility to protect the lives of its students, and to provide students with meaningful drama education. I urge Dean...
When she's gone, what a void she'll leave...
Maki, 64, may be the most talented modernist practicing anywhere today, and his achievement probably could not be duplicated in any other country. "Modern architecture," Maki notes, "having rejected ornament, leaves an unbearable void if shorn of details and a sense of material, no matter how expressive its forms." Thus the proliferation of unbearable voids in downtowns all over the world, where builders have used modernism to justify cheap, uninteresting materials and shoddy construction detailing. Maki's buildings are extraordinary not just because they are intriguingly conceived but also because they are so meticulously made...
...said he came up with the idea for Inside Edge after noting "a void that had been neglected in the pub- lishing world." Hsu and Shapiro's goal was to create a publication by and for young men, a novelty in magazine production...